WILLIAM HOGARTH ENGRAVING The March to Finchley 1761

In late 1745, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his Jacobite forces advanced into England, reaching Derby and raising fears that London was vulnerable. Hogarth's painting shows a fictional assembly of the King's Guards (the 1st Regiment of Foot) responding to the threat. The scene is set at the northern edge of London, with disciplined troops marching in the distance while the foreground erupts in disorder. A soldier is torn between two women, a fifer calls drunken troops to order, a prostitute beckons, a man urinating against a wall and more. Dated June 12, 1761. Plate size 21 1/4” x 16 3/4” double archivally matted to 27” x 23”. Shrink wrapped and ready for framing.